Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Visa's Beijing technology team as a Staff Automation Testing Engineer and contribute to building the next generation of payment products. This hybrid role requires a passionate and talented developer with strong technical leadership, problem-solving, and coding skills. You will own manual and automated testing for mobile applications, ensuring comprehensive test plans and high-quality code delivery within Agile Scrum sprints. The position involves collaborating with product and development teams, defining test strategies, and tracking quality metrics. This hybrid role is based in Beijing with a mix of remote and office work.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience

Responsibilities

• Own the Manual testing, Test Automation and QA tools development for Mobile Applications
• Ensure comprehensive and automated test plans are in place for successful delivery of new/enhanced mobile product features
• Analyze complex software systems and collaborate with others to improve the overall design, testability, and quality of our Mobile (and/or server platforms)
• Enhance and/or designs and develop test automation frameworks into a continuous integration and execution model
• Establishes a set of test suites (unit, smoke, integration, regression, performance/load, security) for multiple applications that can run in a CI/CD environment, across various Mobile devices and test environments
• Work with the product team/ Dev leads to understand how new features should be tested, and then engage them in contributing automated tests
• Work with the development team to define and implement mechanisms to inject testing earlier into the software development process
• Coordinate with scrum team in overseeing bug tracking, test prioritization, test automation, and release
• Define and track quality metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• In-depth understanding of IOS and Android testing/ Automation frameworks like Selenium/Appium
• Solid knowledge and experience on Manual Testing and other Testing Techniques apart from Automation
• Solid expertise in design and execution of the Test cases and test scenarios
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic and troubleshooting skills
• SCRUM/Agile Development, Continuous Integration using Jenkins experience
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Ability to deliver quality documentation
• Excellent organizational skills to focus on the tasks at hand
• A positive and enthusiastic outlook both within the team and when working alone
• Be highly motivated and demonstrate the willingness to learn and to grow within the role
• Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C/C or more or more, Java, JavaScript or Go
• Passion for high quality software engineering
• Experience testing and automating Web, client-side APIs and batch processing applications
• Be at their best when they are collaborating with a high performing team
• Be inquisitive in nature and innovative in their approach
• Be an advocate for quality, influencing the team to build quality into the release pipeline
• Be an established self-starter who possesses a relentless drive to initiate change, raise the technical bar and deliver results
• Have proven experience in testing with a creative edge, showcasing strong problem-solving skills
• Have demonstrable experience in leading testing effort on large-scale software projects
• Proven ability to build strong, cohesive partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience with prompt engineering in the context of Generative AI solutions
• Basic knowledge of building AI (Generative AI) solutions

Benefits

Hybrid position: alternate time between remote and office (2-3 days in office per week)